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BIG SUITS RESULT OF HARVEST
OF AUTO TRUCK DEATHS
Once more the madly rushing
newspaper auto has proved an in
strument of death. Two suits filed
Friday against the ijews and Amer
ican indict the fenderless circulation
autos again.
Oddly the same auto which hurt
Esther Matten of 2724 W. Chicago
av. on Feb. 4 got Marie Klank of 842
N. Christiana av. on March 31.
As a result of this latter accident
the Hearst paper is facing a damage
suit for $10,000.
Mrs. Klank was crossing the street
at Kedzie and Grand av. when the
auto swung around the corner and
hit her. Her head was badty hurt
and she suffered injuries to her body,
her attorney, J. V. Cunninghacrt,
says.
An echo of the killing of 4-year-old
Elmer Pold of 4807 Princeton av.
came yesterday when the News was
sued for $10,000.
Elmer was slain by a fenderless cir
culation truck delivering papers for
Vic Lawson's sheet just as he left
kindergarten on his way home on
the 4th of April.
Contributing to the number of
deaths and injuries of people almost
daily, you wonder why the newspa
pers will not back a law which would
require fenders on their auto trucks
for the protection of pedestrians.
The law was passed three times
without the help of the trust press,
which remained silent to auto truck
accidents during the course of the
legislation.
Another fender law is now before
the council standing a good chance
of being passed but the press has re
fused to mention it
The ordinance was sent to the cor
poration counsel over a month ago
by the judiciary committee. His of
fice has been delaying the report on
this law until another ordinance pro
posed by Aid. Haderlein can be
rushed through the council
This law limits the speed of motor
trucks to eight miles an hour. Back
ers of the fender law say that the
law will be used by enemies of fen
ders as a pretext to stop passage of
the real safeguard ordinance.
If the trucks are not allowed to go
over eight miles an hour fenders will
not be necessary, it will be argued.
But when the law is passed there is
no way the chief of police can be
made to enforce it
Strangely enough, although op
posed to fender laws, the truck own
ers are satisfied with this eight-mile
law. If enforced it would reduce the
efficiency of their trucks almost 50
per cent. But they don't expect en
forcement. o o
ELKUS MUST BE O. K.'D BY THE
SULTAN
ABRAM ELKUS
If the sultan of Turkey says Abram
Elkus is acceptable, Elkus will be
come United States ambassador at
the suplime porte's capitol on the
Bosphorus.
Elkus is a New York lawyer and
was named to succeed Henry Mor
geuthau, who resigned.
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